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Work to reveal and end old-growth forest logging

This pledge closed about 1 year ago

How this will help

Human industrial growth is
systematically liquidating the natural ecosystems that are the habitat
for humans and for all life. Earth is dying, one logged old-growth tree
and tank of gasoline at a time, yet most environmental groups are
shilling solutions that are inadequate and ill-conceived – such as
logging old-growth forests to protect them. Nothing shows this better
than Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network – in an age of mass
extinction, abrupt climate change, and ecosystem collapse – wanting us
to wipe our asses with toilet paper from "certified" old-growth forest
pulp.

EXCERPT: A profound lack of understanding exists, even amid the supposedly
radical environmental movement, of the seriousness of merging ecological
crises. If Gaia – the Earth System or biosphere – is alive, as science
has come to understand, then clearly she can die as key ecosystems are
destroyed and biogeochemical processes fail. To survive, much less
thrive, humanity must stop scraping Earth's land of life, spewing waste
into our air and water, and claiming it can all be certified as
sustainably done, while calling it "development."

Industrial growth's destruction of ecosystems is undermining the
habitability of the planet, threatening the maintenance of conditions
necessary for life, by destroying the ecosystems required for a living
planet. As key ecosystems are lost, indications are humanity will soon
be going extinct, quite possibly taking the biosphere and all life with
us.

Life begets life. It is a miracle of
nature that life, together in ecosystems, creates conditions necessary
for life. Yet multidimensional ecological crises – climate, forests,
water, food, overpopulation and inequitable consumption, and others –
are undermining life. A time of great dying looms as humans are
destroying their habitat, all life, and the Earth System.